Tag Archives: fake food

Iced Tea is Calling Me

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Head Chef

I almost buy into the iced tea hype. Continue reading →

Posted in Beverages, Easy, Meditations on Food, Recipes | Tagged advertising, Arizona, Bigelow, bottles, cans, fake food, homemade, Iced Chai Tea, Iced Tea, Lipton, Moroccan Mint Tea, recipe, Snapple, Tea | 2 Comments

Moosewood Lentil Burgers with Vegan Chipotle Aioli

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Head Chef

Try my vegan chipotle aioli on your next sandwich
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Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Easy, Lowfat, Quick, Recipes, Sauces and Condiments, Tofu, Vegan | Tagged chipotle aioli, fake food, homemade, Lentil, lowfat, Moosewood, recipe, silken tofu, vegan, whole foods | 3 Comments

Ridiculously Good Vegetarian Mushroom Onion Gravy

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Head Chef

This one might convert your carnivorous friends to vegetarianism. Or at least make them wonder why people usually use meat drippings to make gravy. There’s a story behind this gravy. (Isn’t there always?) It began with loaf. I never understood … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Dinner, Easy, Meditations on Food, Recipes | Tagged fake food, gravy, homemade, mushroom onion gravy, onion, vegetarian, vegetarian gravy, whole foods | 2 Comments

Top 10 Impostor Health Foods

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Head Chef

Impostor health foods: neither tasty nor healthful. Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on Food, Top Tens | Tagged advertising, cheese, cooking, diet, fake food, fat, homemade, processed food, vegetarian, whole foods, whole grain | 2 Comments

Vegetarian Wontons in Two Ways and Why I don’t Eat Fake Meat

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Head Chef

I realize my life might be simpler if I ate either meat or something that is supposed to approximate meat. In my last post I described making my own wontons because I missed wonton soup. (As promised, Vegetarian Wonton Soup … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Asian Dishes, Lowfat, Meditations on Food, Party & Holiday, Pasta, Recipes, Soup, Tofu | Tagged broth, cooking, diet, fake food, homemade, lowfat, soup, vegetarian, vegetarian wonton, whole foods | 5 Comments

My Life in Pancakes

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Head Chef

1 Mom’s silver dollar-sized, thin and fluffy, right off the griddle onto my plate, where I drown them in syrup. Perfectly tanned, perfectly sized to eat with my fingers when I think Mom isn’t looking. 2 Pancakes from diners are … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Breakfast, Easy, Meditations on Food, Recipes, Whole Grain | Tagged banana, breakfast, cooking, fake food, homemade, mix, pancake, vegetarian, whole grain | 6 Comments

It’s Chili Outside

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Head Chef

Vegetarian chili, aside from being the perfect meal for a cold winter day, is also one of my favorites because it happens magically when I’m nowhere near the kitchen. Yesterday evening I was on the floor of the writing room, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinner, Easy, Lowfat, Meditations on Food, Recipes, Soup | Tagged canned, cheese, chili, fake food, homemade, lowfat, processed food, vegetarian, vegetarian chili, Writing | 2 Comments

Cheese is Bad For Me and I Should Eat a Lot More of It, Says the USDA

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Head Chef

Reading a New York Times article on the USDA’s mixed signals about cheese made me think about my own conflicting cheese emotions. The USDA, like a person with the two hemispheres of his brain separated, tells us “Eat less fat—don’t … Continue reading →